"An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people."

-- Shelley Berkley

#People Quotes #Ambassadors Quotes #Discrimination Quotes

“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]”
“An obedient wife commands her husband.”
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enoughâ€”but itâ€™s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House
“I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.”
“The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.”
“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”
“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”
“The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.”

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